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10,810 | 69,088 | I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. | George Bernard Shaw | travel |
11,356 | 52,313 | Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways. | Dennis Miller | parenting |
11,737 | 21,749 | There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. | Luc de Clapiers | fear |
4,281 | 49,307 | When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures. | Keanu Reeves | movies |
6,026 | 48,332 | In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga. | Vivienne Westwood | morning |
3,007 | 68,940 | If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. | Marian Wright Edelman | time |
10,235 | 47,784 | We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money. | Jack Nicholson | money |
2,896 | 68,349 | There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. | Elie Wiesel | time |
4,421 | 61,835 | Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. | Wilhelm Reich | science |
3,513 | 73,178 | History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. | Daisaku Ikeda | wisdom |
9,968 | 71,035 | It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. | John Locke | truth |
7,405 | 53,048 | The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. | Morihei Ueshiba | peace |
9,902 | 16,156 | Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? | Cesar Chavez | education |
5,144 | 37,798 | I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. | Derek Jacobi | imagination |
2,324 | 60,015 | Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. | Eudora Welty | respect |
446 | 4,710 | I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. | Michael Jordan | attitude |
4,953 | 10,916 | Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool. | Jay-Z | cool |
2,618 | 33,272 | Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. | Barbara Ehrenreich | health |
10,096 | 56,576 | Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? | Khalil Gibran | power |
6,667 | 8,997 | When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster. | Scott Dixon | car |
6,419 | 28,574 | Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. | Stevie Ray Vaughan | god |
1,872 | 30,100 | Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. | Harry Browne | government |
793 | 56,356 | In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term. | Daniel Pipes | positive |
8,169 | 25,498 | I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. | Joel Edgerton | friendship |
1,409 | 36,370 | Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children. | Ron Fournier | hope |
11,774 | 25,002 | The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. | Richard Cobden | freedom |
8,454 | 5,263 | We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | beauty |
9,384 | 10,019 | We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. | Joan D. Vinge | change |
10,354 | 15,360 | In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. | Monica Bellucci | dreams |
1,384 | 61,442 | I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. | Jacques Yves Cousteau | science |
7,005 | 28,357 | It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. | Francis of Assisi | god |
9,897 | 15,391 | I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out. | Jarvis Cocker | dreams |
6,064 | 7,931 | I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business. | Kristen Stewart | business |
11,646 | 2,890 | I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well. | Vanilla Ice | amazing |
5,050 | 71,486 | The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done. | Brooke Burke | truth |
5,171 | 28,060 | Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.' | Rodney Dangerfield | god |
2,755 | 19,367 | Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. | Marquis de Sade | faith |
2,280 | 47,943 | I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy. | Jim Cramer | money |
5,336 | 33,240 | Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. | Eric Liu | health |
7,469 | 466 | If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. | Pat Robertson | age |
3,636 | 41,694 | The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. | Constance Baker Motley | legal |
8,359 | 10,041 | Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good. | Lao Tzu | communication |
11,028 | 32,344 | Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. | Irving Babbitt | happiness |
11,419 | 18,775 | I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it. | Lisa Marie Presley | failure |
7,869 | 73,573 | Years ago women of my size were considered royalty. | Camryn Manheim | women |
6,396 | 53,426 | When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. | Natan Sharansky | peace |
6,176 | 60,768 | Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic. | Benjamin Bratt | romantic |
4,858 | 65,894 | Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success. | Maude Adams | success |
9,923 | 52,114 | The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature. | Vera Farmiga | nature |
8,804 | 62,187 | In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. | John Boyd Orr | science |
7,288 | 67,499 | The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology. | Cynthia McKinney | technology |
11,127 | 65,762 | Well, success does not mean doing well. | Shirley MacLaine | success |
1,770 | 10,673 | I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people. | Tyra Banks | cool |
7,541 | 45,376 | There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. | William Shakespeare | men |
9,484 | 39,773 | The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. | Ernst Mach | knowledge |
4,340 | 53,957 | Every single soul is a poem. | Michael Franti | poetry |
9,974 | 21,542 | It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey. | Eric Heiden | famous |
7,518 | 26,622 | I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it. | Angela Kinsey | funny |
8,936 | 72,774 | Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. | Theodore Roosevelt | wisdom |
7,686 | 21,301 | No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. | Wesley Snipes | famous |
3,072 | 57,290 | I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. | Maurice Sendak | power |
298 | 63,164 | I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. | Charles Kuralt | society |
10,299 | 20,883 | Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more. | Bonnie Raitt | family |
6,435 | 29,625 | I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? | Dwight D. Eisenhower | good |
1,626 | 18,707 | People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you! | Don Johnson | failure |
7,549 | 62,775 | It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. | Jacques Barzun | society |
11,020 | 48,331 | I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. | David Hockney | morning |
7,798 | 71,086 | Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. | W. Somerset Maugham | truth |
3,819 | 73,232 | Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. | Joseph Roux | wisdom |
6,181 | 54,289 | I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. | Robert Morgan | poetry |
9,021 | 19,441 | My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other. | Rick Wakeman | faith |
11,397 | 74,114 | There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. | Tori Amos | women |
6,294 | 28,316 | If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | god |
6,262 | 2,526 | It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement. | Gabriela Sabatini | amazing |
4,035 | 48,752 | Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion. | Samuel Gompers | morning |
8,251 | 46,391 | I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It was pretty cool I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics! | Ashley Tisdale | mom |
4,837 | 25,365 | Friendship is essentially a partnership. | Aristotle | friendship |
2,028 | 51,979 | The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. | Dennis Prager | nature |
2,410 | 26,150 | It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. | Tom Petty | funny |
11,583 | 51,607 | Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. | Arthur Schopenhauer | nature |
6,472 | 12,874 | My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. | Tom Glazer | dad |
8,903 | 35,806 | Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. | Madonna Ciccone | home |
571 | 11,348 | I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff. | Minka Kelly | cool |
673 | 35,137 | A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. | Ivor Novello | home |
1,456 | 11,138 | In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you. | Hoda Kotb | cool |
1,597 | 65,200 | Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. | Albert Einstein | success |
8,877 | 8,059 | The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become. | Meryl Streep | business |
4,552 | 68,236 | I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. | Mark Twain | time |
11,535 | 73,708 | A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. | Barbara de Angelis | women |
10,062 | 25,832 | Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. | Tim Allen | funny |
8,948 | 71,503 | The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. | Barbra Streisand | truth |
5,681 | 64,398 | The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. | Dean Smith | sports |
5,734 | 32,292 | Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. | Laurence Sterne | happiness |
563 | 49,609 | The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. | Roger Ebert | movies |
8,882 | 40,123 | So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? | Paul Ryan | leadership |
5,950 | 27,082 | In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty. | Simon Mainwaring | future |
2,926 | 61,444 | A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. | Alan Perlis | science |
3,617 | 13,590 | In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. | Robert Green Ingersoll | death |
930 | 61,233 | I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad. | Norma McCorvey | sad |
4,723 | 5,894 | I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. | Julia Margaret Cameron | beauty |
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